Govtech

New Mexico Appoints Manny Barreras as Upcoming CIO

.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the condition's new CIO, the guv's office announced.This consultation happens after greater than a year where the message was held through a behaving CIO. Barreras formerly worked as Motorola Solutions' elderly territory account supervisor for New Mexico and also El Paso, Texas. While along with the business, Barreras was actually involved in securing a contract to execute a significant broadcast system upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Information Technology-- the department he'll currently helm.Barreras' occupation includes greater than twenty years in technical sales, marketing control as well as social relations. He possesses an Undergraduate of Business Management in advertising coming from New Mexico State Educational Institution." Manny Barreras is actually an extraordinary leader with an established performance history in steering cutting-edge solutions and delivering vital interaction bodies for social security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham said in a claim. "His comprehensive adventure and deeper understanding of the difficulties encountering state as well as local area agencies make him the perfect person to lead the Team of Infotech. I am confident that under his management, New Mexico will remain to progress our modern technology commercial infrastructure to much better provide our neighborhoods." Barreras formally became CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO function has actually moved hands a few times in recent years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for personal main reasons. A couple of months later, then-CISO Sambandam occupied the message in an interim capacity. Sambandam went back to his CISO job in June 2022, when the state generated Peter Mantos to serve as CIO. Mantos left behind a year later on for a new task in the governor's office, "managing IT-related unique jobs for governor-led projects," per the state. Sambandam once more actioned in as acting CIO complying with Mantos retirement, an article he held up until this newest session.